The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-15
The \. C. Medical Society met III
Charlotte Wednesday.

Senator NJ. w. Ransom will deIrv-
er the Literary Addres. st W ke
Forest ID jane. 1t will be good.
Lat Frrd ~ steamships landed
1878 immigrants at Castle Garden
! Jro. anamaker carries S600.COJ
( insurance on MS life, J. b. >t,t-pu,
/ $4,000, and Hamilton D.satcu
500 O0J.
On Monday an i~h-Am, rjcar
d leg tinR C ,iled - sc NJ. Cl,lt-
/ irud but did not sc him.
A factory hulId N usad in IT,,
narutAc ure IF nitro gl>cerine was
. /. stro> cd by an explos % at PIalts-
burg, \. y.
Texls is suffering from a severe
thought IN sOne parts.
\ Knigl of Labor assaulted he
Editor of the Am ,terdam N. y
Democrat. He was faed for it $50
A mob attacked the Salvation
Army in Qnet &c. One female sol
der was wounded.
Jno. 7. RAYMOND. the famous
Col. Stll rs, 4 ed in Evansville. Iud
OH the 10th.
The lat issue of the CountrY
Homes, Asheville, \. c., contained u
, paragraph in regard to the colOreG
farmers Club of Scotland Neck.
Darby Gibson, Of Richmond Co..
was CT ushed and burned ty a falling
tree. He vas aiding in ex'inguIsh-
j., lug a fire in a burAIng wood.
The jaji in Green County was
burned last week TIE off Of the
Snow Hill Enterprise suffered much
! from the fire.
More than thirty wears ago Will
liam kissaue wac convicted Of hti>
nous crimes in New York, was put
In Sing Sing enltertlary, was par
doned, escaped and was wanted On
charges of other bad crimes. He
went West, assumed false name.
accumulated III immense fortul e
ana now is the suhject of much com
meat &c, &C.
Mrs. India F. Purefov. aged 68
/ tparS W idOw of Rev. y. a. PurrfOy.
die at " axe Forest last Monday.
The author OF A Fools Errand. >
Judge Tuuro,e e, is said to have a
v. ar"ing 10 return to North Caroll-
n4.' | would he a fco's Grand
for Tourgee to return to a State. IN
winch he j. universally despised.-
Dispatch.
Mrs | A Wingate, mother of the
latp D.. Wingate, died at " axe For
est last Saturday. Her age was
over eighty,
The Winston Sentinel has begun
49, fifth year of usefulness. Il Is
ooe of the Test wecklies in the
South and by far the most enter
prilsing in this State.
Blaine has been sick lately.
There were 1913 failures in tie
United States last week.
Baseball is i'll fill blast up North.
5. n. Brickhouso & Co, of Nor>
folk, failed for 100000.
The President and his cabinet
have their minds disturbed about the
fishing business.
Coal miners in Kentucky have
struck, aGd 700 men are idle.
Prohibition, it is said, is growing
in Texas in favor. They say Rea>
gan favOrs it.
A stallion at Rockford, HI. took
Jno. Hogan by the neck and shook
hum so that he died in few min>
utes.
Rev. Jno. Monroe, of this State, is
writing a history of the early Scotch
settlers. He would receive any ill.,
formation on the subject.
The biggest lo&ster, with one ex-
cepiOn, that has ever been in Full
ton Market, is now on exhibition
there. on Mr.. Blacktord's stand, 1t
weighs twenty pounds and its blL
claw is about eighteen inches long,
1t is alive and looks out with reel
procal establishment at Il crowds
who gather to see it. Close to it is
the Every largest" shad Of the seas
on, VIII Gu weighs q pounds, a roe
shad from North Carolina.-New
York Star.